A TXT record is text in free, human-readable form, which is associated with a domain name as a DNS record for one purpose or another. The most widespread use of a TXT record is to add your web site to an Internet search engine or to an analytics platform, which offers details about the targeted traffic to your site. Creating such a record may serve as verification that you're the domain address owner and they'll provide the content that you need to include as the value when you create the record. Another application of a TXT record is to validate that an email message is sent by the Internet domain owner and from a reliable hosting server - this is the so-called SPF protection, which helps prevent any electronic address set up under your domain name to be forged and unauthorized people to send out spam making it look like it was mailed from your own mailbox. You could include any other info which you want to be associated with your domain name in a TXT record as well.

TXT Records in Hosting

Our custom Hepsia CP will permit you to control the DNS records of any domain or subdomain accommodated in a hosting account easily, so if you want to create a new TXT record for any one of them, it won't take you more than only a few seconds to do it. Using a really user-friendly point-and-click interface, you'll simply have to choose one of your domains or subdomains from a drop-down options menu, pick TXT for the type through a second menu, and then type the actual content within a box. This is done within the DNS Records section of Hepsia and very soon after you are ready, the new record will be functioning. If you'd like to verify your site with Google, for instance, you will simply have to log in to your account with them a few minutes later and ask them to check your domain name or subdomain. It doesn't take longer for a TXT record to go live if you want it for any other purpose.